STRATEGIC THINKING & PLANNING
Upgrade your skills and bring your organization to success with effective strategic thinking and planning
Part 1:Overview of Strategic Thinking & Planning
- What is Strategic Planning and its benefits?
- The Strategic Planning process: The relationship between Mission, Vision, and Strategy
- Seeing the big picture (corporate strategy pyramid)
- Definition of Strategic Thinking
- Characteristics of a strategic thinker
Part 2:Strategic Thinking to Strategic Planning to achieve a vision, mission and objectives
2.1 The Strategic Pillars
- Vision, Mission, Core Values and their roles in Strategic Planning
- The value of purpose in ensuring a High Performance Organization that achieves results
2.2 Strategic Plan Framework
2.3 SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
- Analyze internal situations and resource
- Analyze external effects (PESTEL analysis)
2.4 Identify your organization’s integrated components
2.5 Decide functional strategy: determine your strategic imperatives and performance measures
Part 3: From Strategy to Execution
3.1 Build your strategic action plan
- Identify key elements of a good strategic action plan
- Develop your own strategic action plan
- Apply GAME Plan Tools to build your action plan: (Goals, Activities, Measurement, Evaluation)
- Identify key elements of an executive summary
3.2 Act on leading indicators
3.3 Manage risks and the unknown
3.4 Reasons for failures and solutions
Part 4: Action Plan